History of the Third World

To: Retort
From: SZ

Discussion of Vijay Prashad's

> "Darker Nations"
with 
Eddie Yuen
Sunday, November 4
10:00 am 
Niebyl-Proctor Library
(Telegraph Ave at Alcatraz, East Bay)

What was the Third World?  What are the origins of the term and what political, discursive, and cultural roles did it play during the Cold War?  How and why did the concept come to be replaced by cultural nationalism and religious fundamentalism in much of the "Global South"?  Join Eddie Yuen to discuss these and other themes - class, nationality, culture, gender, religion, marxism, neo-colonialism and utopia - relating to Vijay Prashad's acclaimed new book.  
 
Link to the book "Darker Nations": 
 http://www.thenewpress.com/index.php?option=com_title&task=view_title&metaproductid=1344
 
Link to an interview with Vijay Prashad:
http://www.sajaforum.org/2007/05/books_interview.html
 
Prashad on ZNet:
http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=81
 
Eddie Yuen was the principal editor of "Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches From A Global Movement", Soft Skull Press, 2003.